DeAnna LeTray, a trans woman living in Watertown, New York has filed a lawsuit against the state police department after claiming to have been unlawfully detained, harassed and sexually assaulted by officers in 2017.
According to the 22-page complaint filed by LeTray, she contacted the police after a dispute with her landlord where he threatened to shoot her.
Police did not believe LeTray’s story, and then arrested her after finding a small amount of MDMA in her purse.LeTray reports being frequently misgendered by the police, and said she was sexually assaulted during a strip search.
In a statement accompanying the complaint, she said she decided to file the lawsuit because she didn’t “want anyone to go through the abuse I experienced from.